ARG Discussion | Affray Interactive | Page 8

south fractal Feb 17, 2026, 2:43 AM

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I feel like i've been turning to a damn cryptic box myself.

silver sedge Feb 17, 2026, 2:43 AM

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But yeah, I understand why a lot of the people who like ARGs, like the people who did the SL ARG

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Just gave up

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On this one

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As as of now, there is only like

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What

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5 people trying now?

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When there was 10-11 when it started

hardy ingot Feb 17, 2026, 3:14 AM

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The riddle is very simple. I didn’t even write it. It’s based off of one that exists already. You were meant to solve that first. You might have expected it to be far more complex than it really was, and technically skipped a step by brute forcing attempts and trying to make ciphers. You weren’t supposed to go to the url yet. That was originally meant for the second step.

ARG also isn’t meant to be an overnight event or a constant source of entertainment. It lasting over the course of a week or two is intentional. And as I’ve said before, these ARG games are experimental. Seeing what works and what doesn’t. When we launch the full ARG campaign later it will have more people running and planning it than just myself. You’ll likely see a slightly refreshed Area-12 website as well.

I will remind you all: there’s no time limit or rush on this. None of you are rewarded or punished for taking too long or solving it first. No matter what you’re learning more and more tiny secrets and hints of things to come through dialogue and engagement.

If you want a hint for the riddle then consider anything man made that water can move up in.

shadow crescent Feb 17, 2026, 3:15 AM

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Water tower?

silver sedge Feb 17, 2026, 3:15 AM

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Pipe

shadow crescent Feb 17, 2026, 3:15 AM

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Sprinkler

silver sedge Feb 17, 2026, 3:15 AM

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It is most likely a pipe.

shadow crescent Feb 17, 2026, 3:15 AM

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Tube

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Column

hardy ingot Feb 17, 2026, 3:16 AM

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Tube is close

silver sedge Feb 17, 2026, 3:16 AM

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hardy ingot The riddle is very simple. I didn’t even write it. It’s based off of one that ex...

Anyways, yeah I expected most of that. Thats also why I want to make a comprehensive feedback document, not to like say "ur ARG is bad and it sucks11!1!!", but because I know you are just trying stuff out

shadow crescent Feb 17, 2026, 3:16 AM

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That’s totally tubular, Bishop

silver sedge Feb 17, 2026, 3:16 AM

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Slide?

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Slides are sometime tubes

shadow crescent Feb 17, 2026, 3:16 AM

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Slides go down silly

silver sedge Feb 17, 2026, 3:16 AM

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True

shadow crescent Feb 17, 2026, 3:17 AM

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Hm

silver sedge Feb 17, 2026, 3:17 AM

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I mean what is a tube that is hidden?

shadow crescent Feb 17, 2026, 3:18 AM

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😉

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But anyways

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Uhh

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Hmm

shadow crescent Feb 17, 2026, 3:18 AM

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hardy ingot The riddle is very simple. I didn’t even write it. It’s based off of one that ex...

I don’t think we’ve brute forced anything this go-around

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I’ve very much learned my lesson from the Arly incident

silver sedge Feb 17, 2026, 3:19 AM

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I mean, personally first bit of feedback. I don't think that WHITE thing could qualify was a second step

shadow crescent Feb 17, 2026, 3:19 AM

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THAT I ONLY ALLEGEDLY CAUSED

silver sedge Feb 17, 2026, 3:19 AM

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It was more a branching path tbh

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As we had access to it as soon as the ARG started

willow flame Feb 17, 2026, 3:19 AM

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I mean it was there, and we were playing around with number ciphers originally

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We just happened to of figured out what to do with the numbers

hardy ingot Feb 17, 2026, 3:20 AM

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willow flame We just happened to of figured out what to do with the numbers

Which is pretty wild to me. Once you have the riddle answer you’ll understand why I’m surprised you found that first

shadow crescent Feb 17, 2026, 3:21 AM

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Aqueduct

hardy ingot Feb 17, 2026, 3:21 AM

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One of you said the answer in here already and I’ve said it a few times *not today

silver sedge Feb 17, 2026, 3:21 AM

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Those are normally not hidden

willow flame Feb 17, 2026, 3:21 AM

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Honestly fair, cheers Bishop

shadow crescent Feb 17, 2026, 3:21 AM

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Duct

silver sedge Feb 17, 2026, 3:21 AM

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I mean, better question what is hidden behind a toil of man?

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I was thinking like vein, but those don't carry water they carry blood

hardy ingot Feb 17, 2026, 3:22 AM

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silver sedge I mean, better question what is hidden behind a toil of man?

Wordplay — don’t read into it too hard

silver sedge Feb 17, 2026, 3:22 AM

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Should have seen that coming

willow flame Feb 17, 2026, 3:22 AM

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Thats one of our issues, we overanalyze

silver sedge Feb 17, 2026, 3:22 AM

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We legit thought the fact dave was a different fucking box

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Was something important

hardy ingot Feb 17, 2026, 3:23 AM

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It’s a good detail to catch but not relevant to the riddle

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But the observation is correct

shadow crescent Feb 17, 2026, 3:23 AM

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willow flame Thats one of our issues, we overanalyze

Overanalyzing is A6’s downfall :sigh:

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||it’s occurring to me there is no sigh emoji||

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NPCGuideSigh

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I got that one

hardy ingot Feb 17, 2026, 3:24 AM

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If you guys just wish hard enough you’ll get it

shadow crescent Feb 17, 2026, 3:25 AM

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Pressure? (Not as in pressure Bishop but as a possible answer)

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Lame

silver sedge Feb 17, 2026, 3:25 AM

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Wait, shaft?

shadow crescent Feb 17, 2026, 3:25 AM

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DevastatorPog

silver sedge Feb 17, 2026, 3:26 AM

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We all have been talking about the fucking chapter 3 shaft

hardy ingot Feb 17, 2026, 3:26 AM

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I’m starting to wonder if maybe just none of you are old enough to know the ancient ways

silver sedge Feb 17, 2026, 3:26 AM

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~~most likely not~~

shadow crescent Feb 17, 2026, 3:28 AM

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Cistern

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Conduit

willow flame Feb 17, 2026, 3:28 AM

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archimedes screw

shadow crescent Feb 17, 2026, 3:28 AM

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Well

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Pump

willow flame Feb 17, 2026, 3:28 AM

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Conduit is pretty good

shadow crescent Feb 17, 2026, 3:28 AM

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Riser

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Toilet

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Hehehe

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Toilet’s pretty funny

silver sedge Feb 17, 2026, 3:28 AM

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I saw we should mute krisp for that one

shadow crescent Feb 17, 2026, 3:29 AM

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I meeaaaannnn

silver sedge Feb 17, 2026, 3:29 AM

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Also @hardy ingot Could you pin the riddle in here, so we don't have to go switching to 20000 channels to look at it 😭

shadow crescent Feb 17, 2026, 3:29 AM

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Lmao I was just trying to scroll up to find it

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Hidden behind the toils of man
I dream of flight
There do I rise to  see 
Everything beneath the stars```

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Flume

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Flue

hardy ingot Feb 17, 2026, 3:31 AM

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shadow crescent Feb 17, 2026, 3:31 AM

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Vent spout

silver sedge Feb 17, 2026, 3:31 AM

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~~thanks~~

shadow crescent Feb 17, 2026, 3:32 AM

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Chute

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Standpipe

willow flame Feb 17, 2026, 3:32 AM

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I wish some of us had some admin perms to specifically these chats lol, I get why we don't tho haha

silver sedge Feb 17, 2026, 3:32 AM

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Tbh there is now a perm to pin messages I believe

shadow crescent Feb 17, 2026, 3:32 AM

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Capybara

hardy ingot Feb 17, 2026, 3:32 AM

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Someone said the right word in the last 20 minutes

silver sedge Feb 17, 2026, 3:32 AM

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Ah shit, here we go again

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Is it fucking pipe

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I swear if its pipe

shadow crescent Feb 17, 2026, 3:33 AM

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So it’s not a “say it in the chat” thing I assume we need to use it as a password?

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Or maybe a link like we tried with the White cipher

hardy ingot Feb 17, 2026, 3:33 AM

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shadow crescent So it’s not a “say it in the chat” thing I assume we need to use it as a passwor...

Mhm

shadow crescent Feb 17, 2026, 3:33 AM

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Now THATS tubular

silver sedge Feb 17, 2026, 3:34 AM

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hardy ingot Mhm

I mean wait, just to solve this. The hidden "format" in dave's page IS the password format correct?

hardy ingot Feb 17, 2026, 3:34 AM

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I’ve given you multiple hints and you know how many characters. Short of handing it to you I can’t do much else

silver sedge Feb 17, 2026, 3:34 AM

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If so then I bet the answer is eight characters long

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Yep knew it

shadow crescent Feb 17, 2026, 3:35 AM

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Only eight character one I sent was Aqueduct

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Well aqueduct_362 ain’t the password

hardy ingot Feb 17, 2026, 3:37 AM

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Considering you found Dave before answering the riddle, try to keep your mind in the context of finding Dave

shadow crescent Feb 17, 2026, 3:37 AM

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lick

willow flame Feb 17, 2026, 3:37 AM

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Ignore the format then

shadow crescent Feb 17, 2026, 3:37 AM

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Yes sir!

silver sedge Feb 17, 2026, 3:38 AM

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I mean, I bet the format is correct

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Else how would we know the amount of characters?

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It just has to be something that would relate to how we found dave

willow flame Feb 17, 2026, 3:38 AM

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I don't think the format is correct, if we are going on the premise that _ is NOT a special character

hardy ingot Feb 17, 2026, 3:38 AM

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The answer to the riddle will solve the password but it also isn’t the password

silver sedge Feb 17, 2026, 3:38 AM

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Okay then that solves that issue

south fractal Feb 17, 2026, 3:40 AM

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So an Aqueduct.

silver sedge Feb 17, 2026, 3:40 AM

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Now how would we get from aqueduct, to the dave page

south fractal Feb 17, 2026, 3:40 AM

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Or maybe the screw

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Cause we "Screwed" it. xD

hardy ingot Feb 17, 2026, 3:40 AM

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https://tenor.com/view/evil-laugh-frog-kermit-laughing-gif-15641111

Tenor

silver sedge Feb 17, 2026, 3:41 AM

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Also Aqueducts normally don't raise water, (as thus they would need pumps)

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So water cannot "rise" in them, unless its flooding I guess

shadow crescent Feb 17, 2026, 3:42 AM

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Bishop put the clue in the Lost City of Atlantis

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Our task is to invent time travel and prevent Atlantis from flooding

silver sedge Feb 17, 2026, 3:44 AM

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I mean lets quickly just do a bit of smart, bishop said he said the answer a few times in here... So lets just compare what we have said today

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To what bishop has said

shadow crescent Feb 17, 2026, 3:45 AM

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Smart? What’s that

south fractal Feb 17, 2026, 3:47 AM

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  tubular   Slide   Aqueduct   Duct    Pressure   shaft   Cistern
 Conduit    archimedes screw   Well    Pump     Riser    Toilet  Flume
  Flue     Chute     Standpipe```

Are the words said when bishop says "Someone said the right word in the last 20m"

silver sedge Feb 17, 2026, 3:47 AM

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Wait

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Something we all legit just overlooked

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Is bishop said we know many characters

south fractal Feb 17, 2026, 3:48 AM

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Yeah, he's talking about the password. But we aren't looking for the password

silver sedge Feb 17, 2026, 3:48 AM

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True

silver sedge Feb 17, 2026, 3:49 AM

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south fractal ```Water tower Pipe Sprinkler Tube (Tube is close) tubular Slide ...

I mean what one of those would help us to the dave chipher?

south fractal Feb 17, 2026, 3:52 AM

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Hell if i know but they all have to do with water and were all the words used in the last 20.

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Tube is supposedly the closest answer.

willow flame Feb 17, 2026, 3:52 AM

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tube that is hidden, and links to trying to find dave

silver sedge Feb 17, 2026, 3:57 AM

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south fractal ```Water tower Pipe Sprinkler Tube (Tube is close) tubular Slide ...

To be honest the only thing I can really think of in there is "Riser"

As that kinda makes you think of vertical

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Which is how we found the dave page

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Is via the vertical characters

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Wait guys, I think we are stupid

silver sedge Feb 17, 2026, 4:05 AM

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hardy ingot If you guys just wish hard enough you’ll get it

What is one of the words that we said, that people normally wish into

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And what is one of the words that was more commonly used back in the day

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Its a fucking well

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A wishing well 💀

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Now how that connects to us finding dave, I have no idea

willow flame Feb 17, 2026, 4:07 AM

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A well huh

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HMM

silver sedge Feb 17, 2026, 4:09 AM

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And even better

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Something that one of us have said

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Now the only issue... Bishop hasn't said deepwell, only well (then again we all have said well)

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But deepwell does have eight characters

willow flame Feb 17, 2026, 4:12 AM

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deepwell is the answer that makes the most sense, and I'm pretty sure we've all thought it

silver sedge Feb 17, 2026, 4:13 AM

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Now we just need to figure out

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What the last three things are

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As it is not 362, as we all have tried that before...

willow flame Feb 17, 2026, 4:14 AM

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"why" maybe

silver sedge Feb 17, 2026, 4:14 AM

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Nope

willow flame Feb 17, 2026, 4:14 AM

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Damn

silver sedge Feb 17, 2026, 4:14 AM

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I mean if we think about finding dave real quick

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We have to go back to the email

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The email said that archives has all the documentation required

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So I guess we could assume we were meant to get into there, before finding dave

willow flame Feb 17, 2026, 4:15 AM

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True

silver sedge Feb 17, 2026, 4:16 AM

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Plus we know that most archives were moved over to the deepwell

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So that makes sense

silver sedge Feb 17, 2026, 4:18 AM

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hardy ingot The answer to the riddle will solve the password but it also isn’t the password

Then this also makes sense if it is well

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As "well" isn't eight characters, but we know that it can be turned into eight letters with "deepwell"

willow flame Feb 17, 2026, 4:19 AM

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yah

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It's funny because myself and spaceman were talking about deepwell last night, I think you were there too

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maybe

silver sedge Feb 17, 2026, 4:19 AM

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Yeah I was I think

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I mean we could now look at it;

Dr. Deepwell_***

willow flame Feb 17, 2026, 4:23 AM

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deepwell also makes sense based on the hints dave got us, I wonder if the song "imagine" got stuck in the data somehow and thats where he heard it from lol

silver sedge Feb 17, 2026, 4:24 AM

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Now better question how the fuck did dave get into the deepwell 💀

silver sedge Feb 17, 2026, 4:32 AM

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willow flame deepwell also makes sense based on the hints dave got us, I wonder if the song "...

Or what if we look at it on who made the deepwell?

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As Dr. Deepwell makes no damn sense

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Dr. Carlisle effectively made the deepwell

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It could be either tbh

full rivet Feb 17, 2026, 4:34 AM

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silver sedge As Dr. Deepwell makes no damn sense

Johanna 5K

silver sedge Feb 17, 2026, 4:34 AM

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We just, dont have the last fuckin 3 characters

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Unless they are 362, then we have nothing

willow flame Feb 17, 2026, 5:41 AM

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Yah I dunno

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deepwell is very likely the answer tho

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it's just where to put it

willow flame Feb 17, 2026, 6:11 AM

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@hardy ingot Found the password for facilities.

silent kite Feb 17, 2026, 6:16 AM

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now we need the passwords for personel and archives

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@hardy ingot did we solve the riddle the correct way?

willow flame Feb 17, 2026, 6:19 AM

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SHHHH

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Do not bring up the riddle

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no more

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please..

hardy ingot Feb 17, 2026, 6:25 AM

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Well, well, well… you finally did it. See, that wasn’t so deep, was it?

willow flame Feb 17, 2026, 6:26 AM

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HAH HAH HAH, sorry, we are really good at overcomplicating things haha

silent kite Feb 17, 2026, 6:27 AM

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hardy ingot Well, well, well… you finally did it. See, that wasn’t so deep, was it?

thats mean

hardy ingot Feb 17, 2026, 6:29 AM

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I’ll just tell you what order to concern yourself with things:

Staff
Archives

You have a few hints for now from Dave. Do your best to examine the clues you have for now, and use those to ask the right questions next time you hear from Dave.

willow flame Feb 17, 2026, 6:30 AM

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Aye Ser

hardy ingot Feb 17, 2026, 6:32 AM

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And congratulations

willow flame Feb 17, 2026, 6:33 AM

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I did notice as well the hidden hyperlinks on facilities that link to staff and archives like you said

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the password for facilities seems to also grant access to staff, but not archives

hardy ingot Feb 17, 2026, 6:58 AM

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Lvl 1 grants clearance to the dashboard
Lvl 2 grants access to the staff portal and facilities

Beyond that you need either a direct staff account login or Lvl 3 - 5 clearance

willow flame Feb 17, 2026, 6:59 AM

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Affimative

willow flame Feb 17, 2026, 8:44 AM

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I suppose there is nothing further for us to investigate until Dave appears next(?)

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Unless we have a staff login somewhere to access either drive or emails

full rivet Feb 17, 2026, 10:10 AM

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willow flame <@663905808735535105> Found the password for facilities.

The diagram in facilities is one Bishop posted blurred a while ago

full rivet Feb 17, 2026, 1:09 PM

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The only doctors that Dave mentioned are Lundkvist and Angelis, so we may be searching for one of their passwords

silver sedge Feb 17, 2026, 2:09 PM

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full rivet The only doctors that Dave mentioned are Lundkvist and Angelis, so we may be sea...

Well Lundkvist has the title Professor and not Doctor, as thus we most likely are looking for angelis's password

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Else it would be "Prof." as that normally the prefaces "Dr." title

upbeat sonnet Feb 17, 2026, 2:29 PM

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In relation to the Deepwell, I have a hunch that it's Carlisle

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His name has 8 characters to boot

full rivet Feb 17, 2026, 2:29 PM

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upbeat sonnet His name has 8 characters to boot

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That was used for the password already

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deepwell_362

upbeat sonnet Feb 17, 2026, 2:30 PM

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OH

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Yeah, sorry. I was asleep when that happened and I'm at work now so I guess I'm a bit outdated

silver sedge Feb 17, 2026, 4:08 PM

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@hardy ingot Also, just want to tell you this as I now believe this is actually a mistake.

The "admin" button on the lvl1 page goes to the incorrect page, going to /admin and not /administration.

I know we aint to the part of getting into admin yet (most likely), but still something I noticed

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(I noticed this a long time ago after snooping in the network tab, but I just thought it was irrelevant and we would never gain access to the admin page)

silver sedge Feb 17, 2026, 5:20 PM

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I have also been thinking about some of the random things dave has said with the perspective that we now need someones login.

I believe you seek to immortalize the past in memory. - A person whom wants their work or themselves to be remembered forever.
The years long departed escaped my fingertips - A person who is old

Your heart rate suggests fear. - Someone who scares easily, or is characterized as being scared.
Your left shoe however suggests poor planning. - Someone who generally has bad planning (most likely in "shit's fucked" situations)```

The only person that fits that bill, in my eyes, is Dr. Hugo H. Carlisle

```I believe you seek to immortalize the past in memory. - When Toth was yelling at Carlisle in the 7528 article, she makes it sound like Carlisle will do anything to secure the deepwell as a foundation win (and thus his win).
The years long departed escaped my fingertips - Forde mentioned that he keeps out of "Carlisle's receding hair..." to crius which implies he is decently old.

Your heart rate suggests fear. - In 7528, he legit ran away to a "bolthole"
Your left shoe however suggests poor planning. - But before running away, his plan to solve the breach was to "do nothing," which I count as "poor planning"```

silver sedge Feb 17, 2026, 5:21 PM

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silver sedge I have also been thinking about some of the random things dave has said with the...

"left shoe" could also be a nod to him literally running away as part of his plan

upbeat sonnet Feb 17, 2026, 6:36 PM

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"Left shoe" could also be a not to the Left side, as in "opposite to the right side". Ethics Committee maybe?

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"Untied" could represent something that was unethical?

silver sedge Feb 17, 2026, 8:26 PM

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upbeat sonnet "Untied" could represent something that was unethical?

I mean it could, but where is "untied" from 💀

marble sigil Feb 17, 2026, 8:50 PM

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Btw, on the map bit, Archives might be in Sublevel 3 (leads to archives pw lock) and Staff/Personnel sector in Sublevel 2(links to staff page)

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There are hidden links/dots

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On the image

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Not ARG important but interesting

upbeat sonnet Feb 17, 2026, 8:51 PM

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silver sedge I mean it could, but where is "untied" from 💀

Bro idk I'm tired af from my job. I can't even remember the quotes right at this point

silver sedge Feb 17, 2026, 8:53 PM

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marble sigil Btw, on the map bit, Archives might be in Sublevel 3 (leads to archives pw lock)...

Yeah we already found that

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Our current guess on what we have to crack is

marble sigil Feb 17, 2026, 8:53 PM

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Zamn ok

silver sedge Feb 17, 2026, 8:53 PM

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Staff (The sign-in)

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Then Administration

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Which will give us access to Archives

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Well also could be the other way around where we get access to archives, but not to L5 archives

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Something interesting though, the signin for the personnel page isn't like an offeset of it

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It's url is "intruder"

marble sigil Feb 17, 2026, 8:55 PM

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hardy ingot The riddle is very simple. I didn’t even write it. It’s based off of one that ex...

We have to consider that we did this out of order as well, right?

silver sedge Feb 17, 2026, 8:56 PM

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marble sigil We have to consider that we did this out of order as well, right?

Mhm

marble sigil Feb 17, 2026, 8:56 PM

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Like, technically our next step was to find where Dave is/was

silver sedge Feb 17, 2026, 8:56 PM

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That is refering to the dave link

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Yeah we are still looking for dave

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But to get dave, we need access to archives (as the email states)

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To get archives we need administration to unlock it

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To get administration we need a password

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And maybe somewhere int here the testing tab

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Who knows

marble sigil Feb 17, 2026, 8:59 PM

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K

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So this is gonna be a bit then lol

silver sedge Feb 17, 2026, 8:59 PM

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I mean yeah

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I always said dave was meant to be the end goal...

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Something I dont understand is this image

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Why is it on the staff portal

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There is nothing in it

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The photo was also not even taken nearby where A12 is located

upbeat sonnet Feb 17, 2026, 9:18 PM

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Have you tried playing around with it?

willow flame Feb 17, 2026, 9:34 PM

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I am going to guess, and this might of been said already but I'm at work, but we still need to figure out how we get from white to the a1z26 cipher properly right?

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Key word is properly

willow flame Feb 17, 2026, 10:07 PM

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Someone did in fact say it, above, oh well

novel gull Feb 17, 2026, 10:12 PM

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Any news?

willow flame Feb 17, 2026, 10:19 PM

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Unless you're aware of what's going on, we solved the riddle and have access to staff and facilities

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There's as far as we now

hardy ingot Feb 17, 2026, 11:10 PM

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silver sedge The photo was also not even taken nearby where A12 is located

west virginia

shadow crescent Feb 17, 2026, 11:11 PM

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Blue ridge mountain

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Shenandoah riiiver

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Life is old there

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Older than the trees

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Younger than the mountains

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Flowing like a breeze

upbeat sonnet Feb 17, 2026, 11:14 PM

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Do you think this is West Virginia's version of Rick Roll?

silver sedge Feb 18, 2026, 12:57 AM

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hardy ingot west virginia

Wait wha

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I guess I really suck at reading or something 😭

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Well that now I can make a guess on why thats there

south fractal Feb 18, 2026, 1:35 AM

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hardy ingot west virginia

COUNTRY ROADS! TAKE ME HOME! TO THE PLACE! I BELONG! WEST VIRGINIA! MOUNTAIN MAMA! COUNTRY ROADS! TAKE ME HOME!

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Cannot help it every damn time i read West virginia.

upbeat sonnet Feb 18, 2026, 1:37 AM

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5K is ruining my life. At work today someone was saying that something was resonating and my brain immediately went "Resonating > SCP:5K Resonator"

vagrant ginkgo Feb 18, 2026, 2:23 AM

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it's working

marble sigil Feb 18, 2026, 2:28 AM

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The sleeper 5Kers are being made

hardy ingot Feb 18, 2026, 3:20 AM

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COUNTRY ROOOOOOAAAADDDDD

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TAKE ME HOOOOOOME

silver sedge Feb 18, 2026, 3:39 AM

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hardy ingot COUNTRY ROOOOOOAAAADDDDD

https://tenor.com/view/kermit-the-frog-meme-memes-gif-12941282736857313833

Tenor

south fractal Feb 18, 2026, 12:30 PM

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https://tenor.com/view/aaa-cowboy-aaa-cowboy-music-video-gif-15142935

Tenor

silver sedge Feb 18, 2026, 5:11 PM

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silver sedge Something I dont understand is this image

Well anyways, I found where this was taken. It was taken somewhere inside New River Gorge National Park...

Now what that means, ZERO IDEA!

willow flame Feb 18, 2026, 10:48 PM

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Probably not a whole lot haha

silver sedge Feb 18, 2026, 11:16 PM

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willow flame Probably not a whole lot haha

Well then what is the purpose of that image?

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As it isn't there for zero reason

willow flame Feb 19, 2026, 12:07 AM

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It could be decorative, I've already taken a look at the image and it doesn't seem to have anything hidden at the moment

silver sedge Feb 19, 2026, 12:08 AM

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willow flame It could be decorative, I've already taken a look at the image and it doesn't se...

I personally don't think so, I bet its something we are meant to ask dave about

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As think about it, that is an offical and professional page

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Why would there randomly be a photo of mountains on it?

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Thats like opening your email and randomly seeing subway surfers on the side 💀

willow flame Feb 19, 2026, 12:09 AM

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It's a picture of sugar Grove where area 12 resides, that's about all I can think of presently, we can ask Dave about it tho, and I'll have another look later

silver sedge Feb 19, 2026, 12:09 AM

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Its nto exactly at sugar grove from what I can tell. But yeah its in the general area

willow flame Feb 19, 2026, 12:10 AM

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You get the point though

silver sedge Feb 19, 2026, 12:10 AM

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Yeah I do

willow flame Feb 19, 2026, 12:10 AM

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I'll have a look when I'm actually home, nothing I can do while I'm at work lol

silver sedge Feb 19, 2026, 12:10 AM

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Oh there is nothing in

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The image

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I checked it like 3 times 💀

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My bet its about where the image is, in which I bet only dave can answer

tawdry veldt Feb 19, 2026, 1:03 AM

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konichiwhatsup

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might be nothing but there's 2 dots in the image on facilities

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upbeat sonnet Feb 19, 2026, 1:06 AM

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Indeed

tawdry veldt Feb 19, 2026, 1:10 AM

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https://unsplash.com/photos/a-view-of-a-valley-with-mountains-in-the-background-X_SF0HlO1tw

Photo by Dominic Chasse on Unsplash

Download this photo by Dominic Chasse on Unsplash

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new river gorge national park

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oh wait someone already found that

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my bad gang!!

silver sedge Feb 19, 2026, 1:14 AM

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tawdry veldt

They are links to the Personnel Page (SL Two Dot), and the Archive page (SL Three dot)

tawdry veldt Feb 19, 2026, 1:16 AM

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silver sedge They are links to the Personnel Page (SL Two Dot), and the Archive page (SL Thre...

mb i didnt realize you guys already found them

silver sedge Feb 19, 2026, 1:16 AM

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tawdry veldt mb i didnt realize you guys already found them

no harm

upbeat sonnet Feb 19, 2026, 1:16 AM

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tawdry veldt mb i didnt realize you guys already found them

All good, contributions are always welcome

silver sedge Feb 19, 2026, 1:17 AM

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Just for further context though, we have basically raided that website form top the bottom. But if you do find something you think is important, still say it

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Just incase we didnt find it

tawdry veldt Feb 19, 2026, 1:22 AM

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i got a random url with a blank page

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nothing on it

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probably from when they made the website or somethging

silver sedge Feb 19, 2026, 1:33 AM

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tawdry veldt i got a random url with a blank page

Uh, what url?

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As if it doesn't just go to a login page, it is 100% something

tawdry veldt Feb 19, 2026, 1:37 AM

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(https://area-12.org/cart)

Area-12 // Internal Database

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probably a remnant from the template they used in squarespace

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i genuinely don't think it's anything

upbeat sonnet Feb 19, 2026, 1:38 AM

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Not 100% sure, but I believe area-12.org was supposed to be a merch page

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So that's probably why that's there

silver sedge Feb 19, 2026, 1:40 AM

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tawdry veldt (https://area-12.org/cart)

SO THATS WHY THAT WAS THERE

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In the page source for all the pages in the site

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There is a fucking "cart" to the steam page

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Of 5K

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I bet that is why that is there

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But yeah saying this has the old header and all that, I doubt this is relevant, nice find tho

upbeat sonnet Feb 19, 2026, 1:41 AM

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We'd have to consult Bishop on that, but the old version of the website had a community events page and whatnot

upbeat sonnet Feb 19, 2026, 1:42 AM

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silver sedge But yeah saying this has the old header and all that, I doubt this is relevant, ...

Yeah, it's a remnant of the original site. Nice throwback imo, cool to see that it's still there

tawdry veldt Feb 19, 2026, 1:50 AM

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the look hyperlink on the dave url will probably work when you guys find the normal way to that url

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because i'm pretty sure you got it before you were supposed to from what im reading

silver sedge Feb 19, 2026, 1:53 AM

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tawdry veldt because i'm pretty sure you got it before you were supposed to from what im read...

From what I think

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We got there WAY before we were meant to

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But then again on the other hand, that was stupidly simple to figure out

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And shouldn't really have been in the first riddle 💀

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If its meant to be the end-game page

tawdry veldt Feb 19, 2026, 1:57 AM

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I assume you guys already got the weird access denied background

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good luck! i was no help but maybe someone else will be

silver sedge Feb 19, 2026, 2:00 AM

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tawdry veldt I assume you guys already got the weird access denied background

That is from the last ARG that was teasing the discover program

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It has the discover program logo hidden in it

tawdry veldt Feb 19, 2026, 2:01 AM

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yeah the WhA_t_TH_4y-CA_N0T-C one

silver sedge Feb 19, 2026, 2:02 AM

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Yeah

tawdry veldt Feb 19, 2026, 2:02 AM

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as i said good luck!!!! hope you guys get it, i'll be lurking around here

upbeat sonnet Feb 19, 2026, 2:03 AM

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tawdry veldt as i said good luck!!!! hope you guys get it, i'll be lurking around here

We'll be seeing you! Stick around, there's much more to be uncovered in these Borderless Confines.

tawdry veldt Feb 19, 2026, 2:16 AM

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I feel like the passcode for the email or drive has to be one of the doctors righjt?

silver sedge Feb 19, 2026, 2:16 AM

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tawdry veldt I feel like the passcode for the email or drive has to be one of the doctors rig...

I personally think it's Hugo Carlise's email

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But it could also be Lunkivist or Anglies

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As dave said both of them

willow flame Feb 19, 2026, 5:40 AM

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@hardy ingot I know you had said that we are waiting for Dave, but is there anything we can look for in the meantime? Don't have to reveal what it is, just a simple yes or no. Obviously I understand if you choose to pull a /shrug on us as well but ya know, no harm in asking.

silver sedge Feb 19, 2026, 5:42 AM

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willow flame <@663905808735535105> I know you had said that we are waiting for Dave, but is t...

I mean I bet we can figure whom we are meant to "hack" into

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As bishop did say dave has given us some hints from when we talked to him before

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So I bet a LOT of the random rambling that we thought just meant nothing

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Were refering to a person

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As we now know, legit nothing dave said was a hint to "well"

silver sedge Feb 19, 2026, 5:45 AM

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willow flame <@663905808735535105> I know you had said that we are waiting for Dave, but is t...

Plus further more, I highly doubt bishop would just leave us sitting here if there is literally nothing we can do right now

willow flame Feb 19, 2026, 5:45 AM

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I mean, it is an ARG, sometimes there are moment of rest between parts if that makes sense

silver sedge Feb 19, 2026, 5:46 AM

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Oh I know, I am just saying even if that is the case

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normally there is something small

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To figure out

willow flame Feb 19, 2026, 5:46 AM

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Fair

silver sedge Feb 19, 2026, 5:46 AM

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Now that could be "figure out where the image was taken" or might be "find who you need to gain access to the staff page"

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But, I doubt we will be given literally nothing to look over

willow flame Feb 19, 2026, 5:47 AM

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Lundkvist, Bartolo and Carlisle are likely our options

silver sedge Feb 19, 2026, 5:48 AM

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silver sedge I have also been thinking about some of the random things dave has said with the...

I personally believe its carlisle

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Lundkvist doesn't make sense in this case, as from the dave page it hints we are looking for someone with the title of "Doctor" and lundkvist goes by "Professor"

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I bet we might need him later though

willow flame Feb 19, 2026, 5:49 AM

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True, and though I agree that we may likely look into Carlisle, where is the evidence to support him being who we are looking for

silver sedge Feb 19, 2026, 5:50 AM

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silver sedge I have also been thinking about some of the random things dave has said with the...

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Its loose, but its what I made out of some of the things dave said

willow flame Feb 19, 2026, 5:50 AM

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Hmm, fair enough indeed

silver sedge Feb 19, 2026, 5:51 AM

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Now we just need to figure out what EXACTLY we are looking for

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As the login page still just says "access code"

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Not like "enter email"

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or "enter login"

willow flame Feb 19, 2026, 5:52 AM

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I have a feeling we will likely need both an email and a login pass

silver sedge Feb 19, 2026, 5:52 AM

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Tbh personally

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I think the email login is a red herring, as we are not taken to an email page

willow flame Feb 19, 2026, 5:52 AM

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we already know sorta how the emails are setup though based on 7528's article

silver sedge Feb 19, 2026, 5:52 AM

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When clicking sign in

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We are taken to "intruder"

willow flame Feb 19, 2026, 5:52 AM

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True enough

silver sedge Feb 19, 2026, 5:52 AM

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Which implies cirus, or whoever is doing info security

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Has detected us trying to "hack" into the email accounts

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And is blocking us

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Another path we might need to go on, is testing

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As to me personally it just doesn't make sense that it is unused

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We know;

We need to get into staff emails

We need to get into archives

To get into archives, we need to get into administration

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To get into administration, we most likely need to get into staff emails

silver sedge Feb 19, 2026, 5:54 AM

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silver sedge We know; We need to get into staff emails We need to get into archives To get...

Or at least to get into the L5 section of archives, we need to get into administration

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Plus also, it just feels werid that "Testing" would be hidden behind "Senior Personnel" (L3)

willow flame Feb 19, 2026, 5:55 AM

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We should probably hold off on any other things for now bishop himself said we only need to look into Staff and Archives, Admin and Testing probably later

silver sedge Feb 19, 2026, 5:55 AM

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So its most likely some L2 personnel's login

silver sedge Feb 19, 2026, 5:56 AM

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willow flame We should probably hold off on any other things for now bishop himself said we o...

Well, looking in might not be so black and white as that

willow flame Feb 19, 2026, 5:56 AM

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I have a feeling it's sorta so we don't have another "found the dave page" moment, we'll see

willow flame Feb 19, 2026, 5:57 AM

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hardy ingot I’ll just tell you what order to concern yourself with things: 1. Staff 2. Arch...

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silver sedge Feb 19, 2026, 5:57 AM

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Hm

silver sedge Feb 19, 2026, 5:57 AM

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willow flame I have a feeling it's sorta so we don't have another "found the dave page" momen...

¯_(ツ)_/¯

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I just see this as a step

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We need to concider

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Now if that comes before archives, or after archives

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Who knows

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Then with testing, it just feels personally odd to me to neglect it. As we know that at some point in time, we need the rest of the pages

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So why would testing be exluded?

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It might be the end game, where we get access to a testing archive, but I do think we will use it at somepoint

willow flame Feb 19, 2026, 5:59 AM

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It could be something to look into later, also we've already done stuff with testing technically during the previous ARG, sort of

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We'll see

silver sedge Feb 19, 2026, 5:59 AM

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willow flame It could be something to look into later, also we've already done stuff with tes...

Well further more, I have been thinking about what dave was saying

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Dave is being recorded

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He cannot move

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In a biological research facility, what does that sound like?

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To me it sounds like testing

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The things he is seeing, might be a reaction to whatever he is being tested on

hardy ingot Feb 19, 2026, 6:59 AM

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Dave being taped was just box humor.

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Sorry.

willow flame Feb 19, 2026, 7:20 AM

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Seems about right haha

full rivet Feb 19, 2026, 7:21 AM

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hardy ingot Dave being taped was just box humor.

That's what I thought

silver sedge Feb 19, 2026, 3:13 PM

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hardy ingot Dave being taped was just box humor.

https://tenor.com/view/scp-dog-we-cannot-recover-recover-foundation-gif-24464865

Tenor

willow flame Feb 20, 2026, 6:04 AM

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If we are looking for an email bychance, it likely ends with @a12.scip.net, key word is likely, who knows, I have no leads yet so.

silent kite Feb 20, 2026, 7:00 AM

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silver sedge Feb 20, 2026, 2:58 PM

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willow flame If we are looking for an email bychance, it likely ends with @a12.scip.net, key ...

Yeah I already tried some "standard" workplace emails for each of the people we think it is, like Firstname.lastname and all that

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I am also now noticing I didn't try them with underscores

willow flame Feb 20, 2026, 9:26 PM

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Hmm, we need to bypass intruder page methinks

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I wonder if our boy Crius has anything hiding for us to find

silver sedge Feb 21, 2026, 2:25 AM

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willow flame Hmm, we need to bypass intruder page methinks

I'm starting to think that too

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As this really makes it feel like the password to the intruder page (and maybe thus the email)

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Is not on the website itself

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~~We can't just reset the password 😭~~

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Then also the breach bunker thing is a bit random on the facilities page tbh

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But, does make sense at the same time

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But I also think the facilities tab is meant to be a roadmap to show us where to go; as it says we can download map data once we get access to the new areas

willow flame Feb 21, 2026, 2:29 AM

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Hmmm

silver sedge Feb 21, 2026, 2:33 AM

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willow flame Hmmm

Also something else I am thinking, but is stupidly rough.

The image might be the "location" of A12

As it does kinda look possible

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But also seems like a decent strech, as I doubt there is a way to actually geolocate that image, unless anyone here is insanely good a geoguesser 💀

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(Or I am just stupid and there is a way to do that)

willow flame Feb 21, 2026, 2:35 AM

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I couldn't say honestly

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You could be right

silver sedge Feb 21, 2026, 2:41 AM

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Another thing I don't really understand

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Why is the entrance to A12 redacted to L2 personnel?

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All of them went through it

willow flame Feb 21, 2026, 2:41 AM

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Well, always a chance that they were unconscious when transferred to the site lol

silver sedge Feb 21, 2026, 2:42 AM

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~~Or bagged~~

willow flame Feb 21, 2026, 2:42 AM

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aye

silver sedge Feb 21, 2026, 2:42 AM

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But regardless I do think it is a bit odd

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As either way

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Even if they were bagged, everyone knows it is the entrance

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So what is needing redacting?

willow flame Feb 21, 2026, 2:43 AM

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great question

silver sedge Feb 21, 2026, 2:44 AM

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Also if that is the location of A12, it 100% isn't literally the location...

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Then again I dont know exactly when that national park exactly ends

willow flame Feb 21, 2026, 2:53 AM

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Hmmm

silver sedge Feb 21, 2026, 3:23 AM

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@hardy ingot

Just wanna ask, is the error that "SAFE" is being refered to as a "Risk Class" here intentional? As "Safe" under ACS is a containment class, not a risk class

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The correct "risk class" there would be "Notice" (for the first level)

vagrant ginkgo Feb 21, 2026, 3:28 AM

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pretty sure that's an error

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will fix at some point

silver sedge Feb 21, 2026, 3:31 AM

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Yeah, thats what I expected

willow flame Feb 21, 2026, 6:29 AM

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Maybe the intruder password was the memetic kill agents we found along the way

hardy ingot Feb 21, 2026, 10:26 AM

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I mean CRIUS probably would have been helping you still if it weren’t for Krisp

south fractal Feb 21, 2026, 11:50 AM

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Big burn xD

willow flame Feb 21, 2026, 4:01 PM

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Ah, right true enough

upbeat sonnet Feb 21, 2026, 4:28 PM

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hardy ingot I mean CRIUS probably would have been helping you still if it weren’t for Krisp

Damn, you really took that personally

willow flame Feb 21, 2026, 4:49 PM

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We outta be careful so we don't accidentally put Dave in a boiler or light him on fire lol

silver sedge Feb 21, 2026, 5:26 PM

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willow flame We outta be careful so we don't accidentally put Dave in a boiler or light him o...

I say we just hack the warheads

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Solves all our problems

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We will know where Dave is, as it won’t be Area-12

willow flame Feb 21, 2026, 6:44 PM

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Please do not the area 12

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I'm sure we'll be able to safely find him without destroying everything

upbeat sonnet Feb 21, 2026, 7:30 PM

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I call dibs on killing 542, that thing gives me the creeps

silent kite Feb 21, 2026, 7:48 PM

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how about we dont kill anything except krisp if he manages to kill another ally

willow flame Feb 21, 2026, 8:11 PM

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A reminder, Dave needs our help, help him help you

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And frankly I don't think there is another Arly, I think he's gone

silver sedge Feb 22, 2026, 12:11 AM

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willow flame And frankly I don't think there is another Arly, I think he's gone

Or he just hates us now

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Either or

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Wouldnt be a strech saying we legit murdered him

willow flame Feb 22, 2026, 12:18 AM

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No, Arly is gone, we murdered him, twice might I add, because people were impatient. Arly 12 is very likely not the Arly we know, he is still our buddy, but not our buddy

silver sedge Feb 22, 2026, 12:18 AM

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willow flame No, Arly is gone, we murdered him, twice might I add, because people were impati...

Still technically arly! 🤓

willow flame Feb 22, 2026, 12:19 AM

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Er. No..

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Crius logs ahh

silver sedge Feb 22, 2026, 12:19 AM

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~~The joke was its still called arly~~

willow flame Feb 22, 2026, 12:19 AM

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Fair enough

silver sedge Feb 22, 2026, 12:22 AM

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willow flame No, Arly is gone, we murdered him, twice might I add, because people were impati...

I mean on the other hand, you could assume that crius or whomever made arly 12.. Programmed it to, you now

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Not get fucking murdered?

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As such it might on a technicality hate us still

willow flame Feb 22, 2026, 12:25 AM

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Arly stated that he did not hate us

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Could be lying but it's in the transcripts

silver sedge Feb 22, 2026, 12:26 AM

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Fair

willow flame Feb 22, 2026, 2:04 AM

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I do wonder, if we are interns, why would the website label us as intruders

willow flame Feb 22, 2026, 2:21 AM

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I also wonder if we are even supposed to find an intruder password yet

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is there anything for us to do?

south fractal Feb 22, 2026, 2:26 AM

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Reading this is like watching the D&D players who have given up all sense of their characters and devolve into murder hobo's to solve all their problems.

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xD

willow flame Feb 22, 2026, 2:32 AM

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True

south fractal Feb 22, 2026, 2:40 AM

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Gnashes teeth like some angry simian OOH OOH AHH AHH! ME THROW KRISP! ME BREAK! OOGA OOGA

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xP sorry krisp. We do love you and your skills.

silver sedge Feb 22, 2026, 2:46 AM

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willow flame I do wonder, if we are interns, why would the website label us as intruders

Shrimple, we are hacking into the system

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Interns have L1 clearance

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(Normally)

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So when one somehows gains access to an L2 page, and then attempts to login to said page

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Its gonna set off alarms

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Then again that also depends on WHAT intern we are

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As we might get level 0 (which, I honestly don't think exists here, saying the dashboard to A12 is L1)

willow flame Feb 22, 2026, 2:48 AM

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We started with L1 clearance

silver sedge Feb 22, 2026, 2:49 AM

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willow flame We started with L1 clearance

But, you had to login to that page

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And you didn't know the password...

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Thus you hacked, the L1 page

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But yeah it could still be a strech

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It also could just be as simple as we are trying to login to someone's account from a "non-secure terminal" 💀

silver sedge Feb 22, 2026, 2:50 AM

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willow flame is there *anything* for us to do?

I mean, there is the testing page

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Idk what we would find there, other than maybe like a transcript

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That might have something interesting

willow flame Feb 22, 2026, 2:51 AM

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Once more, bishop has said what to concern ourselves with, meaning it is likely irrelevant at the moment

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Also, originally we did find the L1 passcode hidden within text

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Now it is anything

silver sedge Feb 22, 2026, 2:51 AM

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Bishop said what we should be conerned into gaining access to, I don't believe he explicitly stated that we needed to be done to gain access

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(Correct me if I am wrong)

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It could 100% be a pro gamer move to have us trying to crack the intruder page, when we ain't meant to be

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He already pulled it once with the riddle 💀

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We were trying to unlock the archives page when we weren't meant to be

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But yeah, regardless of what it is

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I do believe we have the ability right now to do something

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We just, dont know it

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I am personally surprised there is nothing hidden in the website itself tbh

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The only thing interesting is the mountain photo

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@willow flame Okay I have a stupid idea that I want your opinion on

Dave is breached

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Would staff go to a breach bunker

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For a box

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Being missing

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(I personally think no)

willow flame Feb 22, 2026, 2:59 AM

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Probably not, but hey, ya never know

silver sedge Feb 22, 2026, 2:59 AM

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But I just REALLY feel like that is trying to say something

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As it just feels random

willow flame Feb 22, 2026, 2:59 AM

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Something to look into for sure

silver sedge Feb 22, 2026, 3:00 AM

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I mostly don't think they would

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Because the main page, doesn't have the "Containment Breach" message on the scroll

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Most likely, if there was an actual containment breach "protocol" enacted, the scroll bar would have something similar to what is seen on the screens in-game.

silver sedge Feb 22, 2026, 3:04 AM

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hardy ingot Lvl 1 grants clearance to the dashboard Lvl 2 grants access to the staff portal...

Actually, concidering this, I bet I can make a prediction on what needs what to unlock;

Staff: "Staff Account"
Testing: Level-3
Administration: Level-4
Archives: Level-5

I bet THAT is the order we need to go into to get from A to B

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Else it just doesn't make sense saying we only have four things to unlock. The only thing that would break that is if archives is split like the staff page is (where you can unlock it, but not all of it)

silver sedge Feb 22, 2026, 3:11 AM

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silver sedge Actually, concidering this, I bet I can make a prediction on what needs what to ...

So, my best guess on who we need to use (if we need a person for each of them) would be;
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Staff: Dr. Angelis (Only doctor dave mentioned to us)
L3: Lundkivst (His position requires a lot of information about anomalies, plus he is a department chair. I think that counts as "Senior Personnel")
L4: Forde (He is a site director... And we know he doesn't have any type of L5 clearance, saying he doesn't even know what is going on in SL3.)
L5: Some O5 OR Carlisle (Carlisle we know is working on the vector program, and based on the 7528 article, he also is doing a lot of other crazy shit... that would most likely be in SL3)

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But that is also, most likely incorrect I bet the other clearance levels are gonna be a random access code again

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And I am once again overanalyzing this shit

south fractal Feb 22, 2026, 4:01 AM

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I’ll just tell you what order to concern yourself with things:

Staff
Archives

You have a few hints for now from Dave. Do your best to examine the clues you have for now, and use those to ask the right questions next time you hear from Dave.```

I believe we can just relax and alalyze the data we have available from the pages we have access to so we can write up a list of questions for when the time comes.

silver sedge Feb 22, 2026, 4:20 AM

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south fractal ```BishopRole icon, Affray Interactive — 2/17/26, 2:29 PM I’ll just tell you wha...

Really, the only two things I can make out as being 100% important from the website is;

What is the photo on the staff page intended to be, what does it symbolize?
What doctor is Dave referring to on the ???? page?

But if we take into consideration what Dave said to us before, that just made zero sense at the time, I then got a few more questions;

Dave was very adamant on the "left shoe" thing, was this referring to us the ARGians being unplanned, or is he describing whom we need to use to gain access to the staff page?
He also says a couple of phrases which suggest someone like Carlise being involved in some way, but only via context clues. Unlike Lundkivst and Angelis, which he directly referenced by name.
Does his description of being an "esteemed agent" refer to himself, or someone else? As the only "agent" we are aware Dave has come into contact with is Souther (Security Chief) from the wiki article. HOWEVER Dave directly states to us that he has never met Souther, and doesn't see them as "helpful." (which implies they are irrelevant)
Where is "Home?"
What the dense fuck does Imagine have to do about literally anything we are trying to do? As that 1000% was not a hint for "deepwell."
Why did Dave imply he is not aware of what Area-12 is, even though he has knowledge of those who work inside Area-12 and some of it's operations.
What does the deepwell have to do with anything we are doing?
How did Dave get access to the L2 password, if he himself seems not to know what Area-12 is?
Was "Poker" a hint, or a joke to deflect stupid questions?
Again the life old question, why should we be concerned about something, and what are we to be concerned about?

south fractal Feb 22, 2026, 4:45 AM

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Although just cause there might be a limit on questions, maybe not bother with 7./11. As im pretty sure those were nothing.

silver sedge Feb 22, 2026, 4:45 AM

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south fractal Although just cause there might be a limit on questions, maybe not bother with 7...

With 7, I think he said it a bit to much for it to be nothing

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For poker, I do think that is more a "don't ask just see if he does it again" type thing

south fractal Feb 22, 2026, 4:46 AM

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Maybe put it as a last q then in rating of importance.

silver sedge Feb 22, 2026, 4:46 AM

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Yeah

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Plus tbh, if it is like the last time we talked to him

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There was no limit on questions, he talked with us until we all got off

south fractal Feb 22, 2026, 4:46 AM

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True but we do not know that those same parameters will be in effect this time.

silver sedge Feb 22, 2026, 4:46 AM

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He just either ignored or defelected stupid questions, or questions that most likely would give away to much

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¯_(ツ)_/¯

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I dont see why they would change

south fractal Feb 22, 2026, 4:47 AM

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Because we got ahead of where we were meant to be. xD

silver sedge Feb 22, 2026, 4:47 AM

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I mean tbh, I don't think that has really given us anything anyways

willow flame Feb 22, 2026, 4:47 AM

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We have had moments where we were limited with questions and time

silver sedge Feb 22, 2026, 4:47 AM

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The password format and "Dr." were added after we found it

south fractal Feb 22, 2026, 4:47 AM

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And i loved wasting 1 of those 3 questions last time

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xD

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I wont do it again i swear.

silver sedge Feb 22, 2026, 4:48 AM

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Yeah tbh that is one thing I kinda hate about having limited questions

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If the person running it decides to answer a stupid fucking question

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Said by some random ass person who is either just joking around, or knows nothing about what is going on

south fractal Feb 22, 2026, 4:48 AM

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xD we got 1 of our questions back because of that though.

silver sedge Feb 22, 2026, 4:48 AM

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It just ruins it for everyone

south fractal Feb 22, 2026, 4:49 AM

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Cause i think it was reaper? was asking silly stuff.

silver sedge Feb 22, 2026, 4:49 AM

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willow flame We have had moments where we were limited with questions and time

Also when?

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Dave only has talked to us once

south fractal Feb 22, 2026, 4:49 AM

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Wasn't dave

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Crius.

willow flame Feb 22, 2026, 4:49 AM

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You forget, this is the second arg

silver sedge Feb 22, 2026, 4:49 AM

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Oh I know

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I am just saying Crius/Arly and Dave are two different being, as thus they most likely act differently

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So far dave shows that he doesnt have a question limit, so most likely unless we get some major breakthrough and get unstuck he won't limit what we can learn to much

willow flame Feb 22, 2026, 4:50 AM

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Arly was the same, but then a lockdown or something happened so we had limited time when he appeared

silver sedge Feb 22, 2026, 4:51 AM

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willow flame Arly was the same, but then a lockdown or something happened so we had limited t...

Ah

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Thats again, his character as an AI. Just how dave works, I doubt something would be able to stop him from talking to us

south fractal Feb 22, 2026, 4:52 AM

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Except if someone with a high CRV is trying to find him as well.

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Then he becomes limited on time

silver sedge Feb 22, 2026, 4:52 AM

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south fractal Except if someone with a high CRV is trying to find him as well.

I mean, not really tbh... A person with a high CRV has the same chance as someone with a low one

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They actually would most likely have less of a chance, saying dave is legit helping us find him

south fractal Feb 22, 2026, 4:53 AM

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So Toth is just plot armor?

silver sedge Feb 22, 2026, 4:53 AM

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Toth most likely doesn't care enough to find dave tbh

south fractal Feb 22, 2026, 4:53 AM

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No but the point stands that we probably aren't the only ones "looking for dave"

silver sedge Feb 22, 2026, 4:53 AM

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I mean, all of A12 is... But yeah

south fractal Feb 22, 2026, 4:54 AM

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If toth can, others can. Point im trying to make is that if they want, they could make it a limited timed theme.

silver sedge Feb 22, 2026, 4:54 AM

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Yeah true

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Not point in bickering on it tho

south fractal Feb 22, 2026, 4:54 AM

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100%

silver sedge Feb 22, 2026, 4:55 AM

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I still REALLY feel like we are somehow overlooking something obvious again

south fractal Feb 22, 2026, 4:55 AM

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In saying that. I would still like to know the reason on the change of Dave's box. :/

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@vagrant ginkgo Was the change to Dave's box artistic design or intentional ARG change? 😄

silver sedge Feb 22, 2026, 4:56 AM

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Bishop said it was a nice observation, but not important

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So.... Who knows what that means for lore

south fractal Feb 22, 2026, 4:56 AM

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I must have missed that msg.

silver sedge Feb 22, 2026, 4:56 AM

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But not important to this arg ig

vagrant ginkgo Feb 22, 2026, 4:56 AM

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change? what change?

willow flame Feb 22, 2026, 4:57 AM

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Dave's an EKIA box, on the website Dave appears as a regular box

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Related to the ARG not the wiki

silver sedge Feb 22, 2026, 4:57 AM

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Well actually

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He said it wasnt relevant to the riddle, not to the ARG

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.

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That is what we mean

vagrant ginkgo Feb 22, 2026, 4:59 AM

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https://tenor.com/view/the-office-pam-beesly-theyre-the-same-picture-the-same-picture-they-are-the-same-picture-gif-20830121

Tenor

silver sedge Feb 22, 2026, 4:59 AM

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I mean, you know what would be a stupidly crazy revelation...

What if Dave can just become any cardboard box?

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Like how 7528 IS any image that is close enough to its "infosignature"

south fractal Feb 22, 2026, 4:59 AM

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I can dig it.

silver sedge Feb 22, 2026, 5:00 AM

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It would explain

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How he creates all the baby daves

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And wife daves

south fractal Feb 22, 2026, 5:00 AM

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World of Dave.

silver sedge Feb 22, 2026, 5:00 AM

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Dave is gonna turn into that cake

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That just constantly replicates

willow flame Feb 22, 2026, 5:01 AM

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The Dave is a lie

south fractal Feb 22, 2026, 5:01 AM

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Worship the dave!

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Fear the dave

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Dave! Is! All!

silver sedge Feb 22, 2026, 5:05 AM

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willow flame The Dave is a lie

willow flame Feb 22, 2026, 5:11 AM

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Yes

silver sedge Feb 22, 2026, 5:11 AM

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That 100% was worth spending 4 minutes of my life making

hardy ingot Feb 22, 2026, 8:53 AM

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silver sedge I mean, you know what would be a stupidly crazy revelation... What if Dave can ...

I would read the article about Dave a bit closer.

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Also, in regards to some things that seemed like bad clues or irrelevant: chances are…they weren’t clues at all. And we’re not relevant. Sometimes these characters are just speaking to you and being who they are. Unless you ask the right things. Not everything they say is a clue. They are reacting to you.

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Dave just likes the Beatles

full rivet Feb 22, 2026, 10:09 AM

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hardy ingot Dave just likes the Beatles

wait did dave say anything about the Beatles

upbeat sonnet Feb 22, 2026, 12:38 PM

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full rivet wait did dave say anything about the Beatles

He sang "Imagine" by John Lennon

full rivet Feb 22, 2026, 12:54 PM

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Yeah but he didn't say anything about the Beetles specifically

upbeat sonnet Feb 22, 2026, 12:55 PM

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full rivet Yeah but he didn't say anything about the Beetles specifically

I mean, John Lennon is/was a Beatle

full rivet Feb 22, 2026, 1:25 PM

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john lennon is a beetle

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i know this

upbeat sonnet Feb 22, 2026, 1:26 PM

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full rivet john lennon is a beetle

I think he's a person but ok

full rivet Feb 22, 2026, 1:26 PM

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that's what They want you to think

silver sedge Feb 22, 2026, 4:37 PM

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hardy ingot Also, in regards to some things that seemed like bad clues or irrelevant: chance...

Yeah, I do expect a lot of the things said not to be clues

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Like the fire and the child support, I doubt are actually... Helpful

hardy ingot Feb 22, 2026, 6:49 PM

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Me: Literally tells you that some info was irrelevant and not a clue. Gives an example of Dave liking the Beatles just because.

ARG Players: this is a clue

hardy ingot Feb 22, 2026, 6:51 PM

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silver sedge Like the fire and the child support, I doubt are actually... Helpful

This was just poking some fun at the original Dave mission

willow flame Feb 22, 2026, 6:54 PM

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Thank you Bishop haha

silver sedge Feb 22, 2026, 7:21 PM

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hardy ingot This was just poking some fun at the original Dave mission

Yeah

south fractal Feb 23, 2026, 12:52 AM

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silent kite Feb 23, 2026, 6:12 PM

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hardy ingot Me: Literally tells you that some info was irrelevant and not a clue. Gives an e...

its not our fault we are dumb

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wait...

silver sedge Feb 23, 2026, 6:14 PM

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silver sedge Yeah, I do expect a lot of the things said not to be clues

I am also now noticing that I said "I do expect" and not "I don't expect"

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willow flame Feb 23, 2026, 6:20 PM

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I'm sure we'll do better in the next phase lmao

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Hopefully

south fractal Feb 24, 2026, 1:36 AM

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We're pretty adept now at burning things down.

silent kite Feb 24, 2026, 3:45 AM

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its now just going to be a pattern that every time Bishop tries to idiot proof the arg we will find something we weren't supposed to yet and or get someone/something killed

hardy ingot Feb 24, 2026, 3:53 AM

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It has been a minute since you heard from Dave, now that you mention it…

silver sedge Feb 24, 2026, 3:55 AM

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silent kite its now just going to be a pattern that every time Bishop tries to idiot proof t...

I mean in our defense, the dave page was kinda just

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Painted to us

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On the first step

silver sedge Feb 24, 2026, 3:57 AM

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hardy ingot It *has* been a minute since you heard from Dave, now that you mention it…

Did dave get taped again? Is that why he isnt talkin to us

hardy ingot Feb 24, 2026, 4:32 AM

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Shipping delay

silver sedge Feb 24, 2026, 4:33 AM

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God damn USPS

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Always late

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He is also gonna arrive with a dent in him too

willow flame Feb 24, 2026, 4:48 AM

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Hmmm

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What could we be looking for

silver sedge Feb 24, 2026, 4:49 AM

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willow flame What could we be looking for

Oh I can tell you

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We are looking for a password of some kind!

willow flame Feb 24, 2026, 5:11 AM

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Oooooooh. Passwords

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How do we get the password

silver sedge Feb 24, 2026, 5:11 AM

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We could ask nicely

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Also this ARG is very unrealistic, the admin password isn't "admin"11!1111!1!1!1!1!!!!11!

willow flame Feb 24, 2026, 5:12 AM

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Crius, could you kindly mark us as not intruders, I promise we are in control, everything is safe.

silver sedge Feb 24, 2026, 5:12 AM

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willow flame Feb 24, 2026, 6:40 AM

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Time to descend into madness once more trying to see if there is an intruder pass

south fractal Feb 24, 2026, 7:08 AM

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silver sedge We just need today's sponsor, NordVPN!

Raid:Show legends*

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The real question for this ARG isn't "Whats the password", It's "When can i buy a Dave plushie?"

willow flame Feb 24, 2026, 7:16 AM

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TRUE

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Wait, can I make dave?

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Can I replicate?

hardy ingot Feb 24, 2026, 8:32 AM

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Oooh. Thinking outside the box now

willow flame Feb 24, 2026, 6:16 PM

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Maybe I'm onto something, maybe we were right, time to go to sugar grove and find Area-12, I'll find Dave there.

silver sedge Feb 24, 2026, 6:35 PM

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south fractal The real question for this ARG isn't "Whats the password", It's "When can i buy ...

Affray would make millions on that shit

willow flame Feb 24, 2026, 6:36 PM

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I know for a fact that @upbeat sonnet is waiting for the resonator plushie

upbeat sonnet Feb 24, 2026, 9:03 PM

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willow flame I know for a fact that <@260780547695968258> is waiting for the resonator plushi...

YES

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I will give you my firstborn

silver sedge Feb 24, 2026, 9:06 PM

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God damn

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Thats a bit much bro

upbeat sonnet Feb 24, 2026, 9:09 PM

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silver sedge Thats a bit much bro

Silence. I will not allow you to speak ill of the Resonator Plushie

silver sedge Feb 24, 2026, 9:12 PM

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willow flame Maybe I'm onto something, maybe we were right, time to go to sugar grove and fin...

Also yeah I dont think the US Government will accept "Dave told me to find him!" as a vaild reason to enter a NSA spybase

willow flame Feb 24, 2026, 9:13 PM

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They don't need to know

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AYO

silver sedge Feb 24, 2026, 9:25 PM

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Space just pissed himself if he saw that

hardy ingot Feb 24, 2026, 9:25 PM

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dave

upbeat sonnet Feb 24, 2026, 9:25 PM

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What

willow flame Feb 24, 2026, 9:25 PM

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You're luck you were quick with it bishop, I was a second short of saving it

upbeat sonnet Feb 24, 2026, 9:25 PM

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Did I miss something?

silver sedge Feb 24, 2026, 9:25 PM

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upbeat sonnet Did I miss something?

pings

willow flame Feb 24, 2026, 9:26 PM

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Nothing here Spaceman, don't worry about it

upbeat sonnet Feb 24, 2026, 10:04 PM

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willow flame Nothing here Spaceman, don't worry about it

I sensed a disturbance

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Must've been the wind

willow flame Feb 24, 2026, 10:04 PM

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Indeed friend, Indeed

willow flame Feb 25, 2026, 2:02 AM

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Biiiishhhoooooop, how to password

silver sedge Feb 25, 2026, 2:29 AM

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willow flame Biiiishhhoooooop, how to password

Did you try to replicate dave

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So that we can ask him questions

willow flame Feb 25, 2026, 2:33 AM

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I fear I dunno where to find an EKIA box

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IKEA is the closest we have, not quite right

marble sigil Feb 25, 2026, 3:04 AM

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Just petition for Sweden to forcibly change the name of IKEA

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Bam done

silver sedge Feb 25, 2026, 3:04 AM

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Welp

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Off to the swedish embassy

silver sedge Feb 25, 2026, 3:28 AM

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Okay I have been going through what dave has been saying

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And knowing we are looking for some sort of login information

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I bet our best bet is lundkivst;

He is the ONLY person dave mentioned without being provoked

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Bartolo from dave resonding to callie after dave misunderstood a question as a request to go on a date

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So most likely a joke

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Dave himself literally said Souther wasnt helpful

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And that is all the people dave talked about

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Now my only issue is the "Dr." hint on dave's ???? page. This is an issue as we know lundkvist most likely doesn't have a PhD based on his conversation with toth in 7555's article.

HOWEVER My best guess if we are looking for lundkivsts password, it is related to toth. As it seems like they are dating, and some people make passwords after loved ones.

willow flame Feb 25, 2026, 3:36 AM

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yippeeeee, we're descending into madness again

silver sedge Feb 25, 2026, 3:36 AM

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https://tenor.com/view/yes-yes-sir-yayy-kataman-gif-12260883688244422951

Tenor

willow flame Feb 25, 2026, 4:16 AM

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@hardy ingot Can you confirm whether or not we are meant to actually be doing something right now, I have a feeling most of us think that we are supposed to be waiting for something to happen. I know we are supposed to look into Staff first, just curious if it's something we can do now.

hardy ingot Feb 25, 2026, 4:52 AM

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Hm. I wouldn’t know. I’d ask Dave but…he appears to have left the server. What did you do?

willow flame Feb 25, 2026, 5:04 AM

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We didn't do anything?? Where did he go??

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Why'd he leave, did someone do something they shouldn't of?

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We need to find Dave

hardy ingot Feb 25, 2026, 6:12 AM

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🤷‍♂️ somethings feels different

willow flame Feb 25, 2026, 6:15 AM

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I am, Investigating.

full rivet Feb 25, 2026, 6:37 AM

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hardy ingot 🤷‍♂️ somethings feels different

somethings feels different

willow flame Feb 25, 2026, 6:43 AM

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But what is it

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What is different, what has happened, what are we not seeing

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I've check through the website, nothing seems to have changed

willow flame Feb 25, 2026, 7:25 AM

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Well, that'll be tomorrow nights problem, for now I will be listening in silence

tawdry veldt Feb 25, 2026, 2:45 PM

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Ruh roh

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Was there always a guy in the level 1 dashboard?

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The homepage I mean

full rivet Feb 25, 2026, 3:00 PM

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tawdry veldt Was there always a guy in the level 1 dashboard?

in the image?

tawdry veldt Feb 25, 2026, 3:20 PM

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full rivet in the image?

Yea

tawdry veldt Feb 25, 2026, 3:55 PM

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Probably nothing actually

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My bad

full rivet Feb 25, 2026, 3:55 PM

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tawdry veldt Yea

its been there the whole time

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that's gabe's sandbox

tawdry veldt Feb 25, 2026, 3:56 PM

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full rivet that's gabe's sandbox

Yeah yeah I saw

full rivet Feb 25, 2026, 3:56 PM

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one of them at least

tawdry veldt Feb 25, 2026, 3:56 PM

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I’m just looking for any changes in any of the related articles

full rivet Feb 25, 2026, 3:56 PM

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generally don't search though people's sandboxes

tawdry veldt Feb 25, 2026, 3:56 PM

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full rivet generally don't search though people's sandboxes

Yeah that’s my bad

silver sedge Feb 25, 2026, 3:56 PM

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tawdry veldt I’m just looking for any changes in any of the related articles

Doubtful, nothing so far has been on the wiki articles

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The only change to an article right now would be fixing an error we reported in Dave’s

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And idk if Gabe has done that yet

tawdry veldt Feb 25, 2026, 3:58 PM

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What is the most likely thing that has changed

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Is it something on this discord or the site?

full rivet Feb 25, 2026, 4:01 PM

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silver sedge And idk if Gabe has done that yet

He hasn't

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nothing on the wiki has been updated

full rivet Feb 25, 2026, 4:02 PM

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tawdry veldt Is it something on this discord or the site?

Most likely the site

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I don't know how we'd find something that changed on this discord

willow flame Feb 25, 2026, 4:04 PM

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If it was in the discord it'd likely of been an edited message from Dave or something, so it outta be the site

upbeat sonnet Feb 25, 2026, 8:36 PM

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hardy ingot 🤷‍♂️ somethings feels different

"You feel the world has changed"

marble sigil Feb 25, 2026, 10:09 PM

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Site seems to be down rn for me

silver sedge Feb 25, 2026, 10:10 PM

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I mean

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Thats different

tawdry veldt Feb 25, 2026, 10:11 PM

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has there always been a search bar?

silver sedge Feb 25, 2026, 10:11 PM

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I think so yeah

tawdry veldt Feb 25, 2026, 10:11 PM

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never saw it before

silver sedge Feb 25, 2026, 10:11 PM

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I dont think it does anythign tho

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I think its just a squarespace default or something

tawdry veldt Feb 25, 2026, 10:11 PM

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yeah site's down for me too

upbeat sonnet Feb 25, 2026, 10:11 PM

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Same here

silver sedge Feb 25, 2026, 10:12 PM

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Yeah they uh

tawdry veldt Feb 25, 2026, 10:12 PM

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really unfortunate

silver sedge Feb 25, 2026, 10:12 PM

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Most likely accidently deleted something important

marble sigil Feb 25, 2026, 10:12 PM

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Dave got mad and broke the site

silver sedge Feb 25, 2026, 10:12 PM

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Hey I mean

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It sure is different!

willow flame Feb 25, 2026, 10:12 PM

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Or it's disabled for "maintenance"

silver sedge Feb 25, 2026, 10:12 PM

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willow flame Or it's disabled for "maintenance"

We would be getting an unauthorized error in that case

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404 implies it doesn't exist

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Not that we are not connecting to it, not that we are unauthorized

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That it just simply, do not exist

willow flame Feb 25, 2026, 10:13 PM

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Guess we'll find out later

upbeat sonnet Feb 25, 2026, 10:13 PM

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silver sedge That it just simply, do not exist

What do you mean?

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What website?

silver sedge Feb 25, 2026, 10:13 PM

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upbeat sonnet What do you mean?

The pages

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On the website

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Don't exist, they are not apart of the website

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That is why it is saying "The page you are looking for has been moved or deleted."

upbeat sonnet Feb 25, 2026, 10:13 PM

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Don't worry about it

silver sedge Feb 25, 2026, 10:13 PM

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Because it has been moved, or deleted

upbeat sonnet Feb 25, 2026, 10:13 PM

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This is not your first day

silver sedge Feb 25, 2026, 10:13 PM

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💀

willow flame Feb 25, 2026, 10:14 PM

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I'm sure it'll be okay, probably just doing something, I'm sure the Arg isn't over yet, Bishop probably would of nuked us if that was the case

silver sedge Feb 25, 2026, 10:15 PM

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willow flame I'm sure it'll be okay, probably just doing something, I'm sure the Arg isn't ov...

Nah I think they just made a mistake when updating the website

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As the homepage is different

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You can scroll and see the website footer now

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And the password bar's animation feels a bit more "refined"

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Or it could just be the website took what bishop said about something being different a bit to seriously

upbeat sonnet Feb 25, 2026, 10:18 PM

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Plot twist: the website is anomalous

silver sedge Feb 25, 2026, 10:19 PM

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I mean, most likely is tbh

willow flame Feb 25, 2026, 10:21 PM

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Could also be receiving an overhaul, Bishop did mention it might at some point. Again we'll probably find out later

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Lot's of possible things going on

silver sedge Feb 25, 2026, 10:23 PM

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willow flame Could also be receiving an overhaul, Bishop did mention it might at some point. ...

I mean, in the case of an overhaul. It would have been done in local browsers, so either two things happened;

Someone accidently pushed an in-dev build of the website to the live branch of the github (or whatever they are using) (I think this is most likely tbh)
They are taking down the website for an overhaul (this doesn't make much sense saying that the website doesn't do anything "important")

You could also blame squarespace

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So most likely its just an accident and they are just gonna revert it and its gonna be all good

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Well I had to try, I did not find dave

tawdry veldt Feb 25, 2026, 11:02 PM

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silver sedge Well I had to try, I did not find dave

lol i tried too

tawdry veldt Feb 25, 2026, 11:25 PM

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yeah i don't think this was supposed to happen

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someone ping me when it works pls

silver sedge Feb 25, 2026, 11:56 PM

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@hardy ingot Just gotta ask...

The website being like this is 100% not intended correct?
-# It really seems like someone accidently pushed an update by accident.

upbeat sonnet Feb 25, 2026, 11:58 PM

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I bet the website is being updated so that there's a button that sends a Resonator Plushie straight to your house

silver sedge Feb 25, 2026, 11:58 PM

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I mean

silver sedge Feb 25, 2026, 11:58 PM

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upbeat sonnet I bet the website is being updated so that there's a button that sends a Resonat...

I meannnn

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There be a shop icon

upbeat sonnet Feb 25, 2026, 11:59 PM

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silver sedge There be a shop icon

Yeah, what about the Resonator Plushie icon?

silver sedge Feb 25, 2026, 11:59 PM

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¯_(ツ)_/¯

upbeat sonnet Feb 26, 2026, 12:02 AM

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silver sedge Feb 26, 2026, 12:02 AM

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What is that

upbeat sonnet Feb 26, 2026, 12:02 AM

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Don't worry about it

silver sedge Feb 26, 2026, 12:02 AM

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Well I know its the fuckin 2000 kill agent

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But also not the same 💀

upbeat sonnet Feb 26, 2026, 12:03 AM

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Don't worry about it

tawdry veldt Feb 26, 2026, 2:44 AM

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i think im doing somethging wrong

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it needs a password when i go to the normal site

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not the amnestic password but a real one

willow flame Feb 26, 2026, 3:03 AM

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The site is likely still down for maintenence

willow flame Feb 26, 2026, 6:10 AM

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Area 12 website when

upbeat sonnet Feb 26, 2026, 10:13 AM

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Wait a minute, Harry is here now?

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We're about to have the most insane ARG update

willow flame Feb 26, 2026, 10:21 AM

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Gabriel has the mischief role, we are so cooked

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What hell is awaiting us oh almighty Bishop and what have we done to invoke your wrath

south fractal Feb 26, 2026, 10:22 AM

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Welcome Harry Blank of HarryBlank.

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We'll be fiiiiiiiiiiine

tawdry veldt Feb 26, 2026, 12:27 PM

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Wtf is harry blank here

tulip inlet Feb 26, 2026, 4:48 PM

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So here for the morse code ?

devout pendant Feb 26, 2026, 5:05 PM

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silver sedge But also not the same 💀

what’s this :3

silver sedge Feb 26, 2026, 5:16 PM

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Yeah guys, it is 100% morse code

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Saying that the file name

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is legit morse.mp4

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💀

shell scarab Feb 26, 2026, 5:21 PM

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brightness + 2.75x speed

silver sedge Feb 26, 2026, 5:21 PM

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Man I have been trying to decode it going stupidly slow, why didn't I think of that 💀

shell scarab Feb 26, 2026, 5:22 PM

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i think 2.75 is still slow

silver sedge Feb 26, 2026, 5:22 PM

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Tbh its fast enough to tell apart what is meant to be a character

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And what is a space

shell scarab Feb 26, 2026, 5:23 PM

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maybe ch1 ?

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The background is similar to the location unknown

silver sedge Feb 26, 2026, 5:23 PM

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I doubt the location is relevant

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As a lot of A12 looks the same

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That could be any hallway

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On any sublevel

willow flame Feb 26, 2026, 5:59 PM

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Sooo I suppose restart means it's time to send all the archives into well, archives I guess and start new ones

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Or restart at least the intranet because I suppose they won't be relevant anymore.

shadow crescent Feb 26, 2026, 6:12 PM

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Twin what happened while I was taking a history test

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How much of the video was analyzed?

inner lance Feb 26, 2026, 6:17 PM

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why is there no audio in the video, am I tripping?

willow flame Feb 26, 2026, 6:18 PM

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That's because there is none

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Morse code is coming from a light in the screen

inner lance Feb 26, 2026, 6:24 PM

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ah, i didn't notice that

willow flame Feb 26, 2026, 6:25 PM

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I gotta monitor general and 5K chat for archives now lol

high fog Feb 26, 2026, 6:26 PM

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Looking into SCP 3125 is probably a good idea

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No way 3125 and 55555 being on the same page is a coincidence

willow flame Feb 26, 2026, 6:27 PM

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Noted

silver sedge Feb 26, 2026, 6:40 PM

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high fog No way 3125 and 55555 being on the same page is a coincidence

What page are we talking about?

willow flame Feb 26, 2026, 6:40 PM

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silver sedge What page are we talking about?

the actual scp 3125

silver sedge Feb 26, 2026, 6:40 PM

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I am so confused where we got both of those numbers 💀

willow flame Feb 26, 2026, 6:41 PM

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Via reading the log that area-12.org gives us after inputting the password "pattern"

silver sedge Feb 26, 2026, 6:42 PM

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Oh

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I didn't know we got the password

willow flame Feb 26, 2026, 6:44 PM

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youmust_CONSUMEChRIUSCONSUME_change_SILENCEDINFERNOCeONSUMEIPPSWITlCHCONSUMEKRISPKLANKCONSUMEXDREAPpERCONSUME_the_CALCONmSUMEBEISEVEN114CONSUMEODDLYDELTACeONSUMEANbDRONICUSSARKCONSUMEROJuAHELCONSUMEWARdFARE6273CONSdUMECONTEFORCONSUiMEWEAVINGSTEVECeONSUMEDsINKO_path

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spells out "help me buddies"

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I believe this was used in the first ARG

silver sedge Feb 26, 2026, 6:45 PM

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https://area-12.org/remote-agent

Area-12 // Internal Database

SIGNATORY INTERCHANGE — Area-12 // Internal Database

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The QR code

willow flame Feb 26, 2026, 6:45 PM

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Yup, already in the archives

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ya know the #1385868798136946698 one

willow flame Feb 26, 2026, 6:49 PM

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willow flame youmust_CONSUMEChRIUSCONSUME_change_SILENCEDINFERNOCeONSUMEIPPSWITlCHCONSUMEKRIS...

The previous level 1 clearance code is also in here still, so it's the same

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1126273

silver sedge Feb 26, 2026, 6:49 PM

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willow flame youmust_CONSUMEChRIUSCONSUME_change_SILENCEDINFERNOCeONSUMEIPPSWITlCHCONSUMEKRIS...

Yeah that sounds like arly

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Saying we killed arly

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I dont think that is helpful

willow flame Feb 26, 2026, 6:49 PM

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That's 7528 with Arly kinda mixed in the background noise

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But yeah, that's from the first ARG, likely not as relevant, maybe the password will be buy who knows

silver sedge Feb 26, 2026, 6:50 PM

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Wait

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The dashboard is now 7528

willow flame Feb 26, 2026, 6:50 PM

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Any page is 7528

silver sedge Feb 26, 2026, 6:50 PM

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Ah

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Yeah its legit just the 7528 thing

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From the game files

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I am still also stupidly confused

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On what the last thing we were doing dave was about

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Like did it just get randomly fucking retconned

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Are we still looking for dave, but something just has happened?

high fog Feb 26, 2026, 6:52 PM

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Yeah when you used to put in an invalid URL it would bring you to an error page, then redirect to a search page

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They pushed an update to disable the search and add 7528 to invalid urls

silver sedge Feb 26, 2026, 6:52 PM

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high fog Yeah when you used to put in an invalid URL it would bring you to an error page,...

When you used to used to put in an invaild URL, it would bring you to a "Acccess Code Required" page

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The whole website has changed

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From what it was

high fog Feb 26, 2026, 6:52 PM

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My guess is it was a default error page from whatever template they used to make this

silver sedge Feb 26, 2026, 6:52 PM

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We used to have a facility map, a email system

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A secret page with dave on it

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Wait @willow flame

Hear me otu

willow flame Feb 26, 2026, 6:53 PM

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The Dave storyline is either put on hold, retconned or we are taking a new direction

silver sedge Feb 26, 2026, 6:53 PM

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"Intruder"

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We kept thinking the intruder was us

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7528 has now fucking consumed

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The A12 website

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Be was the intruder

willow flame Feb 26, 2026, 6:54 PM

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For the second time 😭

silver sedge Feb 26, 2026, 6:54 PM

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¯_(ツ)_/¯

willow flame Feb 26, 2026, 6:55 PM

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I do hope we'll get to sort of continue for where we left off, I was actually really hyped to do email searching and drives, and the direction it was going.

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Maybe this is just a new more streamlined route, one can only hope right

silver sedge Feb 26, 2026, 6:56 PM

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Yeah idfk

willow flame Feb 26, 2026, 6:56 PM

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Oh, found something else

silver sedge Feb 26, 2026, 6:56 PM

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It just seems to much of a drastic change

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To be related

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I really think they just retconned dave

willow flame Feb 26, 2026, 6:56 PM

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https://area-12.org/2389205 This page is still here

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Different tho

silver sedge Feb 26, 2026, 6:56 PM

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Its not

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There tbh

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The html is gutted

willow flame Feb 26, 2026, 6:57 PM

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I don't think you understood what I was getting at

silver sedge Feb 26, 2026, 6:57 PM

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No no I get it, the dave page is still there

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thus it might be relevant

willow flame Feb 26, 2026, 6:57 PM

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And the text it read at the top is "hereforyou" instead of "Consume"

silver sedge Feb 26, 2026, 6:57 PM

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Uh

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~~This is what I get when loading that page~~

willow flame Feb 26, 2026, 6:58 PM

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Oh, that's unfortunate for you

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It's still here

silver sedge Feb 26, 2026, 6:58 PM

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Oh

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No yeah it just fixed itself

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Yeah dave is still there ig

dense glacier Feb 26, 2026, 6:58 PM

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https://area-12.org/hereforyou
returns a positive status

Area-12 // Internal Database

hereforyou — Area-12 // Internal Database

silver sedge Feb 26, 2026, 6:59 PM

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You don't need to put them in spoilers

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NOne of us care for spoilers here

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Also we are aware, its from the old ARG's dave page

silver sedge Feb 26, 2026, 7:00 PM

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willow flame It's still here

So yeah tbh

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I think the goal is still to find dave

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We just kinda have been

willow flame Feb 26, 2026, 7:00 PM

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Oh, nevermind, hereforyou is universal now, no longer consume

silver sedge Feb 26, 2026, 7:00 PM

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Derailed

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Oh wait

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What

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Oh yeah nothing is 7528 anymore

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huh

willow flame Feb 26, 2026, 7:01 PM

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That's still 7528, just not as angry

silver sedge Feb 26, 2026, 7:01 PM

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Well my point is the gif is

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Clearly broken

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If it is still 7528

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💀

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Then again might just be me

willow flame Feb 26, 2026, 7:01 PM

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Dunno why it's not working for you

silver sedge Feb 26, 2026, 7:02 PM

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~~Its blocked by my adblocker~~

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Of fucking course it is

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Wait

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Guys

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Guess what was updated last night

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(Faultline if no one can tell)

sour wagon Feb 26, 2026, 7:06 PM

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did anyone look through 3125 or whatever it was i found

willow flame Feb 26, 2026, 7:06 PM

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Either way, I really do hope our work wasn't all for naught

silver sedge Feb 26, 2026, 7:06 PM

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willow flame Either way, I really do hope our work wasn't all for naught

I will go fuckign insane if we sat for two weeks

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To answer a bullshit riddle

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And it turns out to have been retconned

willow flame Feb 26, 2026, 7:07 PM

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sour wagon did anyone look through 3125 or whatever it was i found

I'm not quite sure on that yet, it could be the actual SCP, but it's unlikely since that specific anomaly isn't at area 12

silver sedge Feb 26, 2026, 7:07 PM

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sour wagon did anyone look through 3125 or whatever it was i found

Its a bit odd to be connected in my personal opinion.

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As int he 5K lore, we don't hear about antimemetics

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Only metamemetics

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Might be a red herring

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Okay so the only thing

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They updated in the faultline document

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Was changing Ghasemi to Khosravi

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And then back again

willow flame Feb 26, 2026, 7:12 PM

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Seems to be Khosravi now

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Likely just a name change

silver sedge Feb 26, 2026, 7:12 PM

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Wa

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Oh I didnt go back to the current page revision

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Yeah I guess they changed CROW's name

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Huh

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Also why do I feel like I have seen "ВАЗ СБУ" somewhere

willow flame Feb 26, 2026, 7:18 PM

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Regrettably I have to go to work now, if there happens to be any updates or breakthrough's would people kinda notify me the best they can?

sharp salmon Feb 26, 2026, 7:38 PM

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Okay this is my first time hearing about this ARG can somebody catch me up on what’s happening

shadow crescent Feb 26, 2026, 7:38 PM

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Welcome in welcome in

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Right now it seems like there’s been a hard pivot from what we were originally working on in the ARG, with the website we were trying to solve seemingly undergoing major changes

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Not too dissimilar to say starting a new chapter in my eyes

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There have been a few previous acts of the arg, I joined around act two I think so my knowledge is far limited compared to my friends here

sharp salmon Feb 26, 2026, 7:41 PM

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Ah, yeah the Deepwell ARG SCP SL has been finished now and just learned that 5K was doing something similar

shadow crescent Feb 26, 2026, 7:42 PM

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Yup! We’ve had this arg going for longer than a year I want to say but I could be wrong

silver sedge Feb 26, 2026, 7:43 PM

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sharp salmon Okay this is my first time hearing about this ARG can somebody catch me up on wh...

Well, we currently have no idea

shadow crescent Feb 26, 2026, 7:43 PM

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Lmao

silver sedge Feb 26, 2026, 7:43 PM

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A few days ago we were attempting to find dave (SCP-6762)

shadow crescent Feb 26, 2026, 7:43 PM

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Yeahh

silver sedge Feb 26, 2026, 7:43 PM

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Now it seems that has most likely been randomly retconned and canceled

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For this new ARG

sharp salmon Feb 26, 2026, 7:43 PM

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Yikes

willow flame Feb 26, 2026, 7:43 PM

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Potentially

silver sedge Feb 26, 2026, 7:43 PM

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Where it seems that SCP-7528 has (once again) taken over the A12 website

shadow crescent Feb 26, 2026, 7:44 PM

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Maybe a reality warping event happened on site?

silver sedge Feb 26, 2026, 7:44 PM

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I mean doubt it

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It could legit just be

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Wait

willow flame Feb 26, 2026, 7:44 PM

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Or the intruder thing actually meant something

silver sedge Feb 26, 2026, 7:44 PM

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willow flame Or the intruder thing actually meant something

Didn't dave

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Say that he didn't know about 7528's containment breach

vagrant ginkgo Feb 26, 2026, 7:44 PM

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Nothing has been retconned

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have fun

silver sedge Feb 26, 2026, 7:44 PM

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We are in the breach

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That is in the wiki articlef or 7528

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Its in 2019

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That is what dave was trying to warn us about

willow flame Feb 26, 2026, 7:45 PM

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Okay okay, so we are still on the same ARG

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Trueee

shadow crescent Feb 26, 2026, 7:45 PM

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Interesting

willow flame Feb 26, 2026, 7:46 PM

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vagrant ginkgo Nothing has been retconned

Thank you Gabriel, I think some of us were very worried everything we just did was for nothing haha

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